Chapter 4 Second Army Division-1

"The survival of Osaka Castle is determined by the battle of Komatsuyama!" This was Goto Matabei Kiji's opinion. When discussing important military affairs, someone in the capital actually gave him an alias, "Master Komatsuyama" because he insisted on expressing his views. "Tokugawa has 300,000 troops, while Toyotomi only has 120,000." Matabei insisted again and again, "If we follow the mistakes of the Sekigahara War, victory may be hard to come by. Besides, the Suruga General Tokugawa Ieyasu is really Ever since the samurai started their business, they have been masters in field battles. The only one who can defeat the enemy is this Komatsu Mountain."

Matabei tapped his finger on the map, which marked the flat hills that towered over Yamato.This part of the map finally cracked due to the constant finger-tapping. "Komatsu-san!" Matabei yelled out countless times. He advocated: transfer the army to Xiaosong Mountain, and then wipe out the enemy troops who invaded the Hanoi Plain in one fell swoop.Because of the favorable location, you can be sure of winning.But our side has to continuously invest in troops. "To prepare for a bloody battle against Komatsuyama, this is the only way to reverse the fate of the Minister of the Right (Toyotomi Hideyori)." Hebei repeatedly emphasized: "The general trend of the world depends entirely on this at best. Komatsu Mountain is 100 meters high."

— Cough, what is this talking about? Toyotomi Hideyori's retainers looked at each other. The head of the seat is the elder of the retainer Ono Jichang, followed by Ono Michiin, Watanabe Neizo Yun, the servants Hosokawa Yorimori, Tomori Mototaka, the confidants Suzuki Masao, Hirai Yasuno, Hirai Yasuhiro, Asai Nagabo, Miura Yoshiyo Wait, all of them are either the children of the domineering female officials in the capital, or their relatives and friends. These people rely too much on the power of the so-called "direct line" courtiers, and they despise Goto Matabei, Sanada Yukimura, Mori Katsunaga, Chosogabu Mori, Akashi Zento and other wandering generals.In fact, these direct retainers are just a group of people who only know how to fight on paper and fight in dreams.

They couldn't help but look embarrassed about Youbei's strategy. "Komatsuyama!" The Toyotomi family has three territories, namely Settsu, Hanoi, and Izumi, with an annual output of more than 650,000 shi.For the first time, they knew that there was such a mountain in the territory.From the map, isn't it forty miles away from Osaka Castle? Mr. Dian, who is called Mrs. Tai in the city, also often comes to attend military affairs conferences.She was afraid that her 23-year-old son, Xiu Lai, would trust the rhetoric of the ronin generals and be in a desperate situation on the battlefield, so she came here to "listen to the government behind the curtain"—to monitor him.

All the ministers in the direct line had to look at Mrs. Tai's face to discuss military affairs. The guard looked sharply at Xiu Lai's face and said: "The foolish minister thinks that if the lord can ride on Xiaosong Mountain, the morale of the whole army will be greatly boosted. , will undoubtedly win..." Xiu Lai said nothing. "What's your honor, my lord?" "..." Xiu Lai is a big character, six feet tall, with fair skin and delicate features.He is not like his dead father Hideyoshi, but he inherits the bloodline of Oda and Asai's matriarchal line.Since the birth of her mother, Xiu Lai has been raised by a maidservant, and she can't even take a bath until now.He only went out of the city once when he was a teenager, and went to pick up shells on Sumiyoshi Beach.Maybe he was not born stupid, but his mother's doting completely suffocated his little intelligence.If you want to talk about his ability, it's just making women have children!

Hideyori looked at her mother who was sitting upright, her white and plump body tightly wrapped in gorgeous clothes. Mrs. Tai spoke up.In the past, people called her the "peerless beauty", but now she has become bloated and ugly.With a straight face, she greeted the elder Zhizhang of the direct retainers: "My lord." Mrs. Tai never spoke directly to those rogue generals. Even if she didn't regard them as sinners, she at least divided the retainers into two categories, namely, the direct relatives and the generals who were born in vagrants.She firmly believes that this is extremely important to maintain the dignity and inferiority of the whole city.

"The minister on the right can't fight in person. The battle at Xiaosongshan has to be discussed in the long run." The ministers of the direct descendants who were sitting side by side breathed a sigh of relief, with a look of relief on their faces.Forty miles from the city is too far away.Now, even one step away from the capital is dangerous, why bother to take such a risk?What's more, the capital city is the rare and unparalleled Osaka Castle in ancient and modern times! In fact, the city walls no longer exist. The walls of the city had been duped by Tokugawa Ieyasu during the peace talks last winter, and they were all filled in.Although the city is huge, its defensive capabilities have been halved, and it has become a superficial city.

——However, the city is still there. Osaka Castle seems to be the lifeblood of all the retainers.Why did he have to abandon the city and run to Xiaosong Mountain, forty miles away?Forty miles is too far. However, at this moment, at the age of seventy-five, Tokugawa Ieyasu, the commander-in-chief of the Kanto, had left his secluded Junfu, crossed six hundred miles of rivers and mountains, and entered the Kyoto.